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501 Menex| these I am bound to make honourable mention, and shall invoke
502 Menex| the dead, she never ceases honouring them, celebrating in common
503 Menex| one else’s, no matter. I hope that you will oblige me.~
504 Menex| us as friends, when the hour of destiny brings you hither;
505 Menex| begin to rule over their own houses arrayed in the strength
506 Menex| forth wheat and barley for human food, which is the best
507 Menex| contain the germ of the idea); we democrats are the aristocracy
508 Menex| the doctrine that vice is ignorance, traces of a Platonic authorship.
509 Menex| traits, whether original or imitated may be uncertain. Socrates,
510 Menex| dialogues. The resemblances or imitations of the Gorgias, Protagoras,
511 Menex| difference between Plato and his imitators was not so perceptible as
512 Menex| authority is a good deal impaired by the uncertainty concerning
513 Menex| the same time, the lesson imparted is simple, and the irony
514 Menex| of Plato. They fade off imperceptibly from one class to another.
515 Menex| might be expected from an imperious woman. Socrates is not to
516 Menex| maintained and still more often implied in this and similar discussions;
517 Menex| inconceivable about a more important work, e.g. the Laws, especially
518 Menex| the like. But he does not impose on Menexenus by his dissimulation.
519 Menex| PREFACE~It seems impossible to separate by any exact
520 Menex| will be compelled almost to improvise.~SOCRATES: But why, my friend,
521 Menex| this time, however, I am inclined to think that the speaker
522 Menex| catalogues of a century later include manifest forgeries. Even
523 Menex| famous in antiquity, and is included in the Alexandrian catalogues
524 Menex| another portion of them, including the Epistles, the Epinomis,
525 Menex| short writing; but this is inconceivable about a more important work,
526 Menex| inferiority of execution, or inconsistency of thought, can hardly be
527 Menex| SOCRATES: Well, if you are incredulous, you may come with me and
528 Menex| retaliated, but that she was indignant at the ingratitude of the
529 Menex| Aristotle, we may perhaps infer that he was unacquainted
530 Menex| difference of style, or inferiority of execution, or inconsistency
531 Menex| when they are under the influence of the speaker, more wonderful
532 Menex| Though a very clever and ingenious work, the Lesser Hippias
533 Menex| she was indignant at the ingratitude of the Hellenes, when she
534 Menex| definite form, and to their inimitable excellence. The three dialogues
535 Menex| resolution of refusing aid to her injurers when they were being enslaved,
536 Menex| rugged grandeur and political insight of the great historian.
537 Menex| somebody say something— is inspired by the genius loci; in the
538 | instead
539 Menex| problems which no critical instinct can determine.~On the other
540 Menex| freedom among us, and the instinctive dislike of the barbarian,
541 Menex| first ordered our lives, and instructed us in the arts for the supply
542 Menex| places in their hands the instruments of their fathers’ virtues;
543 Menex| years, in an age of great intellectual activity, as well as of
544 Menex| Thucydides, and was, perhaps, intended to rival that great work.
545 Menex| to Marathon with a like intention, expecting to bind the Athenians
546 Menex| later ones by as wide an interval of philosophical speculation
547 Menex| one writing in his name, intimates clearly enough that the
548 Menex| their country against the invasion of Eumolpus and the Amazons,
549 Menex| earlier Platonic writings, to invent. The motive or leading thought
550 Menex| of the speech having been invented by Aspasia is well sustained,
551 Menex| or three other plausible inventions, can be fairly doubted by
552 Menex| honourable mention, and shall invoke others to sing of them also
553 Menex| spirit; they will compare the Ion as being akin both in subject
554 Menex| rhetoricians is transparent.~The ironical assumption of Socrates,
555 Menex| imparted is simple, and the irony more transparent than in
556 Menex| narrative; in the age of Isocrates and Demosthenes the Athenians
557 Menex| sentiments, we were again isolated, because we were unwilling
558 Menex| freedom of the Boeotians; the issue was doubtful, and was decided
559 | its
560 | itself
561 Menex| as prosperity makes men jealous, there succeeded a jealousy
562 Menex| forth on their destined journey they were attended on their
563 Menex| disorder in a milder form. How joyful and natural was the reconciliation
564 Menex| they would fain be saying, judging from what they then said.
565 Menex| one charge which he could justly urge—that she was too compassionate
566 Menex| namely, the Axiochus, De justo, De virtute, Demodocus,
567 Menex| were panic-stricken and kept quiet, too happy in having
568 Menex| always provided some one who kindly took care of us.~MENEXENUS:
569 Menex| their parents and elder kindred in the place of a guardian—
570 Menex| than longer ones; and some kinds of composition, such as
571 Menex| approval of the many. For kings we have always had, first
572 Menex| them a friendship as of kinsmen, faithful not in word only,
573 Menex| reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any
574 Menex| of Socrates, Plato, who knows so well how to give a hint,
575 Menex| who had learned music of Lamprus, and rhetoric of Antiphon
576 Menex| that on grounds either of language or philosophy we should
577 Menex| to any one but Plato. And lastly, we may remark that one
578 Menex| consciousness of dignity lasts me more than three days,
579 Menex| and they arrived a day too late for the battle; but the
580 Menex| quite elevated by their laudations, and I stand listening to
581 Menex| am afraid that you will laugh at me if I continue the
582 Menex| engagement and taking their leaders, the Spartans, at Sphagia,
583 Menex| to invent. The motive or leading thought of the dialogue
584 Menex| victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as
585 Menex| good orator because he had learnt of Aspasia, is not coarse,
586 | least
587 Menex| Lacedaemonians had gone on their way, leaving the Boeotians, whom they
588 Menex| Corinth, or by treason at Lechaeum. Brave men, too, were those
589 Menex| some evil fortune they were left to perish at sea, and therefore
590 Menex| birth compels us to seek for legal equality, and to recognize
591 Menex| Gods and ancestors, and the legendary history of Athens, to which
592 Menex| for the liberties of the Leontines, to whom they were bound
593 Menex| foundation. At the same time, the lesson imparted is simple, and
594 Menex| panegyrical orations, are more liable to suspicion than others;
595 Menex| and Boeotia is a war of liberation; the Athenians gave back
596 Menex| catalogues of the Alexandrian librarians cannot be regarded as trustworthy);
597 Menex| accessible part of Egypt and Libya; the third king was Darius,
598 Menex| passed unadulterated into the life-blood of the city. And so, notwithstanding
599 Menex| conception of humour, or what limits he would have prescribed
600 Menex| refuse, since we are alone. Listen then: If I remember rightly,
601 Menex| laudations, and I stand listening to their words, Menexenus,
602 Menex| scholar and critic, is of little importance to the general
603 Menex| action to which the Hellenes looked back when they ventured
604 Menex| Socrates to dance naked out of love for Menexenus, is any more
605 Menex| to sing of them also in lyric and other strains, in a
606 Menex| frankly admitted. Nor can we maintain of some other dialogues,
607 Menex| be spurious, as is often maintained and still more often implied
608 Menex| attack one another out of malice or enmity, but they were
609 Menex| the favour of Heaven, we managed better, for we ended the
610 Menex| them and brought them up to manhood, she gave them Gods to be
611 Menex| a century later include manifest forgeries. Even the value
612 Menex| possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice. And
613 Menex| his wisdom from Diotima of Mantinea, and the like. But he does
614 Menex| the absence of the highest marks either of poetical or philosophical
615 Menex| MENEXENUS: Truly, Socrates, I marvel that Aspasia, who is only
616 Menex| s or any one else’s, no matter. I hope that you will oblige
617 Menex| she? I suppose that you mean Aspasia.~SOCRATES: Yes,
618 | meantime
619 Menex| countrymen, and subjected the Medes, who were their lords, and
620 Menex| perceptible as to ourselves. The Memorabilia of Xenophon and the Dialogues
621 Menex| ordained. For noble words are a memorial and a crown of noble actions,
622 Menex| and do honour to their memories.~Such were the actions of
623 Menex| writings which he cites without mentioning Plato, under their own names,
624 Menex| same name. Moreover, the mere existence of a Greater and
625 Menex| paradox of Socrates, or merely following the argument ‘
626 Menex| Plato, has the greatest merit, and is somewhat longer
627 Menex| authorship in doubt. There are merits and there are defects which
628 Menex| Aristotle; the first in the Metaphysics, the latter in the Rhetoric.
629 Menex| I had Connus, the son of Metrobius, as a master, and he was
630 Menex| Hellenes, and dwell in the midst of us; but we are pure Hellenes,
631 Menex| should take the disorder in a milder form. How joyful and natural
632 Menex| the oration of Aspasia the Milesian.~MENEXENUS: Truly, Socrates,
633 Menex| itself is professedly a mimetic work, like the speeches
634 Menex| and, what is the greatest miracle of all, the Persian king
635 Menex| most by making themselves miserable and by taking their misfortunes
636 Menex| they lost heart and came to misfortune, their very enemies and
637 Menex| composed dialogues; and mistakes of names are very likely
638 Menex| ships were blockaded at Mitylene. But the citizens themselves
639 Menex| them may be of the same mixed character which is apparent
640 Menex| from the city; with what moderation did they order the war against
641 Menex| free and pure from savage monsters, and out of all animals
642 | Moreover
643 Menex| good, they have attained. A mortal man cannot expect to have
644 | mostly
645 Menex| had enough of them, are mounting upwards to things higher
646 Menex| anachronism which puts into her mouth an allusion to the peace
647 Menex| that hosts of men and the multitude of riches alike yield to
648 Menex| still wooing the poet’s muse. Of these I am bound to
649 Menex| equestrian contests, and musical festivals of every sort.
650 Menex| race with them, and have mutually received and granted forgiveness
651 | myself
652 Menex| which are quoted but not named, are still more defective
653 | namely
654 Menex| formed the centre of the narrative; in the age of Isocrates
655 Menex| many and mighty and warlike nations had the power of Persia
656 Menex| An unknown writing was naturally attributed to a known writer
657 Menex| publish her speech.~MENEXENUS: Nay, Socrates, let us have the
658 Menex| that of Marathon and came nearest to it; for the men of Marathon
659 Menex| by the hearers. A word is needed which will duly praise the
660 Menex| the supply of our daily needs, and taught us the acquisition
661 Menex| brings you hither; but if you neglect our words and are disgraced
662 Menex| should have entered into negotiations with their bitterest enemy,
663 Menex| king was going to make a new attempt upon the Hellenes,
664 Menex| to be told—many days and nights would not suffice to tell
665 Menex| arrive at the conclusion that nineteen-twentieths of all the writings which
666 Menex| swear. Such was the natural nobility of this city, so sound and
667 Menex| too, our brethren, being nobly born and having been brought
668 Menex| upon to speak at a moment’s notice, and he will be compelled
669 Menex| yourselves; for we will nourish your age, and take care
670 Menex| mother; she bore them and nourished them and received them,
671 Menex| And when she had herself nursed them and brought them up
672 Menex| whom they were bound by oaths; but, owing to the distance,
673 Menex| Politicus, that no considerable objection can be urged against them,
674 Menex| from weakness or poverty or obscurity of origin, nor honoured
675 Menex| name once appended easily obtained authority. A tendency may
676 Menex| another’s hands, and on such occasions as these to reconcile them
677 Menex| addresses of the same kind which occur in Plato, in whom the dramatic
678 Menex| are very likely to have occurred. Greek literature in the
679 Menex| countrymen conquered at Oenophyta, and righteously restored
680 Menex| dialogues which we have offered to the criticism of the
681 Menex| I shall be ready to hold office, if you allow and advise
682 Menex| the people, who dispense offices and power to those who appear
683 Menex| tyrannies and there are oligarchies, in which the one party
684 Menex| afterwards she made the olive to spring up to be a boon
685 Menex| virtues; for the sake of the omen, she would have them from
686 Menex| Eretrians. Having effected one-half of their purpose, they were
687 Menex| they were who received the onset of the barbarians at Marathon,
688 Menex| Phaedrus. The satirical opening and the concluding words
689 Menex| as to come round to the opinion, that from this city, of
690 Menex| observed to blend the works and opinions of the master with those
691 Menex| their very enemies and opponents winning more renown for
692 Menex| honoured by reason of the opposite, as in other states, but
693 Menex| supported. The traditions of the oral discourses both of Socrates
694 Menex| them, as is meet and by law ordained. For noble words are a memorial
695 Menex| poverty or obscurity of origin, nor honoured by reason
696 Menex| the Gods did not grant originality or genius. Further, in attempting
697 Menex| detected, or which seem to have originated in a name or statement really
698 Menex| it is possible that their orphanhood may not be felt by them;
699 | ours
700 Menex| against them, though greatly overbalanced by the weight (chiefly)
701 Menex| the author is asserting or overthrowing the paradox of Socrates,
702 Menex| wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such
703 Menex| possibly like the works of some painters, may be partly or wholly
704 Menex| The Menexenus veils in panegyric the weak places of Athenian
705 Menex| composition, such as epistles or panegyrical orations, are more liable
706 Menex| battle; but the rest were panic-stricken and kept quiet, too happy
707 Menex| asserting or overthrowing the paradox of Socrates, or merely following
708 Menex| they are children she is a parent to them, and when they have
709 Menex| Lacedaemonians on behalf of the Parians. Now the king fearing this
710 Menex| Mem. A similar taste for parody appears not only in the
711 Menex| oligarchies, in which the one party are slaves and the others
712 Menex| seems to be referring to passages in the extant dialogues.
713 Menex| covenanted, that, if he would pay them money, they would make
714 Menex| many others, descendants of Pelops or Cadmus or Egyptus or
715 Menex| mostly in the hands of the people, who dispense offices and
716 Menex| us remember how the chief peoples of Hellas, Argives and Boeotians
717 Menex| his imitators was not so perceptible as to ourselves. The Memorabilia
718 Menex| suffered. After this there was perfect peace, and the city had
719 Menex| fortune they were left to perish at sea, and therefore are
720 Menex| would proceed.~And if a person desired to bring a deserved
721 Menex| un-Platonic than the threat of physical force which Phaedrus uses
722 Menex| if any, in drawing the picture of the Silenus Socrates,
723 Menex| Plato. The motive of the piece may, perhaps, be found in
724 Menex| those who came from the Piraeus and those who came from
725 Menex| the like. These are the platitudes and falsehoods in which
726 Menex| themselves and two or three other plausible inventions, can be fairly
727 Menex| by Thucydides as the best pleader of his day, the satire on
728 Menex| of the earth she gave a plenteous supply, not only to her
729 Menex| friend, should he not have plenty to say? Every rhetorician
730 Menex| his own safety instead of plotting the destruction of Hellas.~
731 Menex| highest marks either of poetical or philosophical excellence;
732 Menex| the Argives; besides, the poets have already declared in
733 Menex| preparation. But Socrates points out that they had them always
734 Menex| although he may have been poor, and an elaborate speech
735 Menex| terror which had hitherto possessed the Hellenes, and so made
736 Menex| know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable
737 Menex| reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting
738 Menex| been written in youth, or possibly like the works of some painters,
739 Menex| though rather young for the post, are intending to govern
740 Menex| noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of
741 Menex| rejected from weakness or poverty or obscurity of origin,
742 Menex| intending to ridicule the practice, and at the same time to
743 Menex| shall we rightly begin the praises of these brave men? In their
744 Menex| their prayers; for they prayed, not that their children
745 Menex| sacrifices and prayers, praying to those who have power
746 Menex| dishonourable. And if you follow our precepts you will be received by
747 Menex| PREFACE~It seems impossible to separate
748 Menex| dishonourably, but have preferred to die honourably rather
749 Menex| the time allowed them for preparation. But Socrates points out
750 Menex| wise man who has long ago prepared what he has to say, although
751 Menex| what limits he would have prescribed to himself, if any, in drawing
752 Menex| escaped for a time. He who has present to his mind that conflict
753 Menex| sea and the islands. None presumed to be his equal; the minds
754 Menex| that then he might have a pretence for withdrawing from us.
755 Menex| delivers a speech, generally pretends that what he is speaking
756 Menex| element is always tending to prevail over the rhetorical. The
757 Menex| whom the Lacedaemonians had previously handed over to him, he thinking
758 Menex| sea, asked of us, as the price of his alliance with us
759 Menex| Marathon, and chastened the pride of the whole of Asia, and
760 Menex| states, but there is one principle—he who appears to be wise
761 Menex| value.~Proceeding upon these principles we appear to arrive at the
762 Menex| regular publication, or printing, or binding, or even of
763 Menex| from which they are taken. Prior, however, to the enquiry
764 Menex| of you both publicly and privately in any place in which one
765 Menex| his disciples: this was probably due to their definite form,
766 Menex| the Silenus Socrates, are problems which no critical instinct
767 Menex| other, his salvation would proceed.~And if a person desired
768 Menex| sufficient, is of inferior value.~Proceeding upon these principles we
769 Menex| of the reader. The effect produced by these grandiloquent orations
770 Menex| dialogues; the oration itself is professedly a mimetic work, like the
771 Menex| SOCRATES: Then I will keep my promise.~THE END~
772 Menex| offspring. And these are truer proofs of motherhood in a country
773 Menex| great work. If genuine, the proper place of the Menexenus would
774 Menex| all rites which become the property of each; and in addition
775 Menex| nor at any other, do we propose to draw an absolute line
776 Menex| commemoration of their deeds in prose which we might attempt would
777 Menex| in honour; and then, as prosperity makes men jealous, there
778 Menex| mother), so did this our land prove that she was the mother
779 Menex| their genuineness is neither proven nor disproven until further
780 Menex| away, he will remember the proverb— “Neither rejoicing overmuch
781 Menex| yourselves; for she has made provision by law concerning the parents
782 Menex| one doubted the superior prowess of the Athenians in the
783 Menex| the safeguards of regular publication, or printing, or binding,
784 Menex| and take care of you both publicly and privately in any place
785 Menex| may be angry with me if I publish her speech.~MENEXENUS: Nay,
786 Menex| finished speaker; even the pupil of very inferior masters,
787 Menex| wholly the compositions of pupils; or they may have been the
788 Menex| salvation, and drove and purged away all barbarians from
789 Menex| effected one-half of their purpose, they were in the act of
790 Menex| this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.
791 Menex| notwithstanding the anachronism which puts into her mouth an allusion
792 Menex| partly from previous thought, putting together fragments of the
793 Menex| subdued. Now Darius had a quarrel against us and the Eretrians,
794 Menex| suggesting some interesting questions to the scholar and critic,
795 Menex| was only too glad to be quit of us. Yet in this war we
796 Menex| credible; those again which are quoted but not named, are still
797 Menex| testimony of Aristotle, who quotes, in the Rhetoric, the well-known
798 Menex| who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from
799 Menex| a speech; she must be a rare one.~SOCRATES: Well, if
800 Menex| Sophist, in the satirical reasoning upon Homer, in the reductio
801 Menex| no one will welcome or receive you. This is the message
802 Menex| form of government which receives various names, according
803 Menex| departed friends are to be reckoned. Then as now, and indeed
804 Menex| for legal equality, and to recognize no superiority except in
805 Menex| such occasions as these to reconcile them with sacrifices and
806 Menex| joyful and natural was the reconciliation of those who came from the
807 Menex| own style. The orators had recourse to their favourite loci
808 Menex| on Socrates, who does not recover after having heard one of
809 Menex| reasoning upon Homer, in the reductio ad absurdum of the doctrine
810 Menex| Platonic authorship. In reference to the last point we are
811 Menex| both of them he seems to be referring to passages in the extant
812 Menex| or keep her resolution of refusing aid to her injurers when
813 Menex| must consider how we should regard the question of the genuineness
814 Menex| MENEXENUS: Then why will you not rehearse what she said?~SOCRATES:
815 Menex| men? In their life they rejoiced their own friends with their
816 Menex| remember the proverb— “Neither rejoicing overmuch nor grieving overmuch,”
817 Menex| in the description of the relations of Socrates and Alcibiades.
818 Menex| grieving overmuch,” for he relies upon himself. And such we
819 Menex| and alone has justice and religion. And a great proof that
820 Menex| and opponents winning more renown for valour and temperance
821 Menex| they might be brave and renowned. And this, which is the
822 Menex| sea and land, and how they repelled them. I will mention only
823 Menex| barbarians, and there was a report that the great king was
824 Menex| and in her bosom they now repose. It is meet and right, therefore,
825 Menex| the Eretrians, who were reputed to be amongst the noblest
826 Menex| these semi-Platonic writings require more careful study and more
827 Menex| Hellenes, and therefore justice requires that we should also make
828 Menex| embarked, and came to the rescue with sixty other ships,
829 Menex| concluding words bear a great resemblance to the earlier dialogues;
830 Menex| the earlier dialogues. The resemblances or imitations of the Gorgias,
831 Menex| to hold out or keep her resolution of refusing aid to her injurers
832 Menex| and contention of the Gods respecting her. And ought not the country
833 Menex| Oenophyta, and righteously restored those who had been unrighteously
834 Menex| For he whose happiness rests with himself, if possible,
835 Menex| our fathers and mothers to retain these feelings throughout
836 Menex| and at sea the Persians retained the reputation of being
837 Menex| at her hands and severely retaliated, but that she was indignant
838 Menex| received good from her and returned evil, having made common
839 Menex| appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor
840 Menex| They already have their reward, and I say no more of them;
841 Menex| is evidently intending to ridicule the practice, and at the
842 Menex| conquered at Oenophyta, and righteously restored those who had been
843 Menex| sophistry in them, or the ring of a later age, or the slighter
844 Menex| sound of their words keep ringing in my ears.~MENEXENUS: You
845 Menex| celebrating in common for all rites which become the property
846 Menex| was, perhaps, intended to rival that great work. If genuine,
847 Menex| slighter work of Lysias. In his rivalry with the latter, to whom
848 Menex| who fought by sea at the river Eurymedon, and who went
849 Menex| such extremity as to come round to the opinion, that from
850 Menex| falls very far short of the rugged grandeur and political insight
851 Menex| those who fell owing to the ruggedness of the ground at the battle
852 Menex| from the first begin to rule over their own houses arrayed
853 Menex| and good is a governor and ruler. The basis of this our government
854 Menex| gave them Gods to be their rulers and teachers, whose names
855 Menex| Thus in the Cratylus he is run away with; in the Phaedrus
856 Menex| these to reconcile them with sacrifices and prayers, praying to
857 Menex| our own, and without the safeguards of regular publication,
858 Menex| soldiers of Marathon and the sailors of Salamis became the schoolmasters
859 Menex| we had conspired against Sardis, and he sent 500,000 men
860 Menex| pleader of his day, the satire on him and on the whole
861 Menex| mother was free and pure from savage monsters, and out of all
862 Menex| to stand aloof, when he saw the Lacedaemonians growing
863 Menex| seriously in all that he says, and Plato, both in the
864 Menex| twentieth debatable portion scarcely in any degree affects our
865 Menex| interesting questions to the scholar and critic, is of little
866 Menex| sailors of Salamis became the schoolmasters of Hellas; the one teaching
867 Menex| boundaries of the empire to Scythia, and with his fleet held
868 Menex| their valour not only that sea-fight was won for us, but the
869 Menex| no one might escape, he searched the whole country after
870 Menex| whither they had gone over the seas to fight for the liberties
871 Menex| goodness of their birth; secondly, their nurture and education;
872 Menex| them, and I will keep the secret.~SOCRATES: Then I will keep
873 Menex| equality of birth compels us to seek for legal equality, and
874 Menex| from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom;
875 Menex| and out of all animals selected and brought forth man, who
876 Menex| Alcibiades describes himself as self-convicted by the words of Socrates.
877 Menex| that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable
878 Menex| softened, and did in fact send out aid, and delivered the
879 Menex| when the whole earth was sending forth and creating diverse
880 Menex| arrived at man’s estate she sends them to their several duties,
881 Menex| fifth day do I come to my senses and know where I am; in
882 Menex| conspired against Sardis, and he sent 500,000 men in transports
883 Menex| power, in the formation of sentences, and in the use of words,
884 Menex| notwithstanding our noble sentiments, we were again isolated,
885 Menex| PREFACE~It seems impossible to separate by any exact line the genuine
886 Menex| speculation as that which separates his later writings from
887 Menex| honourably interred in this sepulchre by the state. Afterwards
888 Menex| Socrates is not to be taken seriously in all that he says, and
889 Menex| deliver with the utmost seriousness. And in their name I beseech
890 Menex| one another’s masters or servants; but the natural equality
891 Menex| education; and then let us set forth how noble their actions
892 Menex| oration. But Plato, like Shakespeare, is careless of such anachronisms,
893 Menex| in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled
894 Menex| to them. The city herself shares in the education of the
895 Menex| against Athens. And then shone forth the power and valour
896 Menex| writings are the following: Shorter works are more likely to
897 Menex| find in Lysias, was the shortness of the time allowed them
898 Menex| to keep his head on his shoulders. He sailed against the Eretrians,
899 Menex| the men of Marathon only showed the Hellenes that it was
900 Menex| doubts had no foundation—showing by their victory in the
901 Menex| them had won victories in Sicily, whither they had gone over
902 Menex| drawing the picture of the Silenus Socrates, are problems which
903 Menex| the lesson imparted is simple, and the irony more transparent
904 | since
905 Menex| and shall invoke others to sing of them also in lyric and
906 Menex| that they could conquer single-handed those with whom they had
907 Menex| mention of ‘Hippias’ in the singular by Aristotle, we may perhaps
908 Menex| De virtute, Demodocus, Sisyphus, Eryxias, which on grounds,
909 Menex| and that at least five or six dialogues bearing this name
910 Menex| came to the rescue with sixty other ships, and their valour
911 Menex| Plato or of an extremely skilful imitator. The excellence
912 Menex| in numbers and wealth and skill and strength. This is the
913 Menex| delivered the Hellenes from slavery, and they were free until
914 Menex| which the one party are slaves and the others masters.
915 Menex| appears to be suggested by the slight mention of Cleitophon and
916 Menex| Symposium and elsewhere, is not slow to admit a sort of Aristophanic
917 Menex| But there still remains a small portion of which we are
918 Menex| which are extant (for the so-called Funeral Oration of Demosthenes
919 Menex| being enslaved, but she was softened, and did in fact send out
920 Menex| are the children of the soil, dwelling and living in
921 Menex| these their descendants sojourners only, whose fathers have
922 Menex| the Phaedrus he has heard somebody say something— is inspired
923 | something
924 | sometimes
925 Menex| the greatest merit, and is somewhat longer than any of them,
926 Menex| have already declared in song to all mankind their glory,
927 Menex| and children, they will soonest forget their misfortunes,
928 Menex| again, which have a taste of sophistry in them, or the ring of
929 Menex| they will not please us by sorrowing and lamenting over us. But,
930 Menex| states are made up of all sorts and unequal conditions of
931 Menex| and they steal away our souls with their embellished words;
932 Menex| be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us. And
933 Menex| might have destroyed them, spared their lives, and gave them
934 Menex| the highest authority is specially entrusted with the duty
935 Menex| interval of philosophical speculation as that which separates
936 Menex| back the Spartans taken at Sphacteria out of kindness— indeed,
937 Menex| leaders, the Spartans, at Sphagia, when they might have destroyed
938 Menex| funeral oration which Pericles spoke, but which, as I believe,
939 Menex| peace abroad, but there sprang up war at home; and, if
940 Menex| the borders of Eretria and spreading from sea to sea, joined
941 Menex| afterwards she made the olive to spring up to be a boon to her children,
942 Menex| were good because they were sprung from good fathers. Wherefore
943 Menex| originated in a name or statement really occurring in some
944 Menex| beauty of them—and they steal away our souls with their
945 Menex| like other countries, a stepmother to her children, but their
946 Menex| will not need any one to stir them up. While we gently
947 Menex| also in lyric and other strains, in a manner becoming the
948 Menex| Their ancestors were not strangers, nor are these their descendants
949 Menex| Gods. This is proved by the strife and contention of the Gods
950 Menex| sons of heroes, that you strive to be the bravest of men.
951 Menex| the Phaedrus Plato shows a strong antipathy, he is entirely
952 Menex| is clearly, although not strongly, asserted.~Whether the Menexenus
953 Menex| Athenians took part in the struggle; they were all united in
954 Menex| who was also a careful student of the earlier Platonic
955 Menex| writings require more careful study and more comparison of them
956 Menex| improvising that sort of stuff. Had the orator to praise
957 Menex| were his countrymen, and subjected the Medes, who were their
958 Menex| good rhetorician who could succeed and gain credit. But there
959 Menex| antipathy, he is entirely successful, but he is not equal to
960 Menex| and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither
961 Menex| to the speech, I become suddenly conscious of having a sort
962 Menex| days and nights would not suffice to tell of them. Let them
963 Menex| or a writer, and though suggesting some interesting questions
964 Menex| ancient Greek authors may be summed up under two heads only: (
965 Menex| which no poet has worthily sung, and which are still wooing
966 Menex| equality, and to recognize no superiority except in the reputation
967 Menex| Aristotle, and is interesting as supplying an example of the manner
968 Menex| she provided the means of support for her offspring. For as
969 Menex| evidence by which they are supported. The traditions of the oral
970 Menex| MENEXENUS: And who is she? I suppose that you mean Aspasia.~SOCRATES:
971 Menex| coarse, as Schleiermacher supposes, but is rather to be regarded
972 Menex| sorrows, either they will be suspected of not being our parents,
973 Menex| Alcibiades, we are compelled to suspend our judgment on the genuineness
974 Menex| possible,—who is not hanging in suspense on other men, or changing
975 Menex| orations, are more liable to suspicion than others; those, again,
976 Menex| invented by Aspasia is well sustained, and is in the manner of
977 Menex| is the best and noblest sustenance for man, whom she regarded
978 Menex| refused to give them up and swear. Such was the natural nobility
979 Menex| willing to let them go, and swore and covenanted, that, if
980 Menex| creating diverse animals, tame and wild, she our mother
981 Menex| schoolmasters of Hellas; the one teaching and habituating the Hellenes
982 Menex| and Datis as commander, telling him to bring the Eretrians
983 Menex| more renown for valour and temperance than the friends of others.
984 Menex| for the best. He is the temperate and valiant and wise; and
985 Menex| bear their loss lightly and temperately. For our life will have
986 Menex| easily obtained authority. A tendency may also be observed to
987 Menex| dramatic element is always tending to prevail over the rhetorical.
988 Menex| they dispelled the second terror which had hitherto possessed
989 Menex| and cannot therefore be tested by a comparison of the other
990 Menex| seems to be founded upon the text of Xenophon, Mem. A similar
991 Menex| mention only that act of theirs which appears to me to be
992 Menex| Alcibiades was a favourite thesis, and that at least five
993 Menex| in many respects a noble thing. The dead man gets a fine
994 Menex| judgment of Plato, either as a thinker or a writer, and though
995 Menex| uncertain. In either case, the thoughts are partly borrowed from
996 Menex| Cleitophon and his attachment to Thrasymachus in the Republic; and the
997 Menex| more un-Platonic than the threat of physical force which
998 | throughout
999 Menex| does to a certain extent throw a doubt upon both of them.
1000 Menex| gentleness was the veritable tie of blood, which created